Friday, 8 August 2014

I write this
post due to a lot of questions I got a little while ago about it.

IIFYM = If
It Fits Your Macro

Clean Eating
= You eat whole, not processed food. No dairy, no flour, no salt, no sugar.

So first of
all, macro is short for macronutrients.

Macronutrients
are carbs, fat and protein. You must have food to survive.

There’s this
point of view that everyone has a daily amount of carbs (in grams), fat,
protein and calories and that the most important thing is that it does not
exceeds this amount (in grams) of fat, protein and carbs, and of course it
shouldn’t exceed your daily calories
allowance.

A lot of
people find it easy to follow and not as strict as other diets. The reason being
of course that you can have junk food as well If It Fits Your Macro.

Of course
(that’s the part where you get a story and some backstage gossip from the
fitness industry) the IIFYM people are being judged for eating “bad food”.

Well, it’s
half true.

Yes if you
choose to eat by what fits your macro you can have junk food; but like any kind
of calories counting (or point counting like weight watchers) if you eat healthy you can eat more while if
you have a big mac you just got close to you daily macro/calories allowance.

All those
fitness models that go by IIFYM are not eating junk. If you want to look good
you can’t eat junk.

Meaning: who
cares how you call you diet? How about people in the fitness industry would
stop fighting and saying what they say is the best and only way and trying to
make money from making you feel stupid?

You eat
healthy? You move your ass? You’re doing great!

People that
say that people on IIFYM eat junk are stupid. Just like people that eat only
clean food and finish their workout with whey. Clean food means no processed
food.

Meaning no
milk (dairy or non-dairy), no sugar, no salt or any unknown ingredients like
whey powder.

The more you
move, the less crap you eat, the better you get.

IIFYM and
clean eating people both eat more whole food than crap, both move their ass and
that’s the way to lose fat.

Some people
find it easy to focus on one thing and that’s ok.

IIFYM came
from people who find clean eating is too hard. But don’t get fooled: You want
to look shredded? You don’t eat junk at all. Doesn’t matter what you call it.

I go by
portions; it’s easy to do and I don’t need to calculate anything.

My food is
90% clean but I don’t like to call it a clean diet. I do dairy and whey.

Processed
food is bad. Nothing anyone says can change it, so relax and don’t try to find
a name for your lifestyle; just live healthy and enjoy it.

If you do
want help with a meal plan because you find it too confusing and you do want to
know how to to portions that fit you (you got to find what fits you and only
you. we’re all different), contact me at: danagatfit@outlook.com

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I was born fat and I grow up hoping one day its all going to disperse and one day I'll wake up skinny.
Well guess what fat doesn't just disperse you need to work for it but you shouldn't be miserable. losing weight doesn't have to be giving up on everything you like or hating yourself losing weight is about getting healthier and stronger (and you can still eat cake)